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OPINION: Is Materialism Bad for Christmas?

December 22, 2025 Jeb Smith

I think materialism negatively affects society 364 days of the year, and many Vermont Christians who otherwise seem okay with materialism despise it on the one day I think it has positives: Christmas! As a child, Christmas was always my favorite day of the year. It was a time when we received beautifully wrapped presents, … Read more

MANUSE: Perfection Is Our Goal, But Not Our Reality

September 13, 2025 Andrew Manuse

A recent survey from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University noted that about 50 percent of Americans, and WAY TOO MANY Christians, believe that they are perfect and have no need of improvement. This is false doctrine, and it is our objective at First Fruits Ministries to correct false doctrine by teaching the Truth. As … Read more

No More Kings

July 9, 2025April 20, 2025 Matthew Rhodes

NO More Kings A just and legitimate government understands the sacred nature of free will. Free will is not a fringe idea—it is the cornerstone of human dignity. It’s the simple truth that God does not desire automatons or slaves, but men and women who freely choose to know Him, love Him, and serve Him. … Read more

I’m Not a Philosopher, but “Throwing God Out” First Might Lead To Communism.

February 22, 2025 The New England Take

After a conversation with AJ, we’d like to welcome the New England Take Back as a regular weekly podcast! It’s regular night will be Saturday at 8 pm. This “week” … A. J. was shocked by how quickly some people abandon their religion when it is so essential to his own worldview. Vox, “For years, … Read more

Liberation Day – An Invocation (And What a Prayer It Was!)

January 24, 2025 Skip

Does anyone ever stop to think that an invocation before a meeting or proceedings could be considered in a highlight reel of said meeting? Trump continues to surprise many while bewildering his critics and enemies. Trump’s Inauguration in the Capital Rotunda became a “be wonderment” moment. There were the expected prayers from the various faiths, … Read more

God Is Greater

October 29, 2024 Aaron Warner

Though it may feel like it for many of us, who knows where we rank among the most uncertain times in human history? Many civilizations have faced enormous levels of hostility and strife, our own as well during the Civil War, however the alarmist bells are clanging on both sides making essentially the same claim … Read more

A ‘Freedom’ Impossible Without ‘God’?

July 9, 2025September 2, 2024 Russ Payne

In Hosea 4:6 of God’s holy scriptures, He tells the people of Israel that they are “destroyed for lack of knowledge,” indicating both the priesthood and the people have forgotten His law. America’s decline from the greatest national power has followed a similar path, forgetting His eternal truth: “Where the spirit of the Lord is, … Read more

Thank God It’s Good Friday

March 29, 2024 Aaron Warner

So little of what we see in the news these days can be called good. In fact, one has to look pretty hard to find it. Few would argue the chaos in New Hampshire (exploding violent attacks, joblessness, high cost of living, reckless politicians, etc.) is reflective of the larger global chaos. The evidence and … Read more

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Night Cap: You Are Not Saving the Planet, but You Are Ruining Life on It …

March 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Every spring, no matter how soon or how late it arrives, we have frogs and the things frogs eat. We have the things that eat frogs and that eat them, and so on—the circle of life. Everything eats something else.

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Individual Rights and God-Given Freedoms

December 21, 2023December 21, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Tulsi Gabbard isn’t great on every issue, but she was better than most Democrats on a lot of issues (and more than a few Republicans) and has since left that Klan Bake to take up many a cause on the center-right.

Are You Ready for Project Blue Beam?

September 8, 2023 Aaron Warner

If you’re a regular consumer of mainstream news you will have noticed this past year has seen a sharp uptick in talk of alien craft littering the skies of the world, especially the western world. Just this past month the United States congress held committee meetings to hear the testimony of government personnel, including military aircraft pilots, who offer detailed accounts of their observations.

Act Like Men Part 2: Politics and Passivity

June 3, 2023 Aaron Warner

Here in the Upper Valley the leadership among the local churches has a variety of approaches to leading their congregants, so far as teaching the Bible and sharing the gospel. Some churches and their leaders take a traditional approach with acoustic hymns and worship styles followed by line by line exegesis of the scripture.

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Biden Laptop part 3: The Reckoning

May 17, 2023 Aaron Warner

After looking through the extensively documented and verified communications, pictures and overt commissions on the Hunter Biden laptop, as presented in the Marco Polo report, the magnitude of the Biden crime family is as global as it is unnerving. The amount of criminal activity in the United States alone is enough for Hunter, his dad … Read more

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What the Tuck? Word War III

April 29, 2023 Aaron Warner

Upon hearing Fox News Network was “parting ways” with Tucker Carlson, the shock was sudden but the surprise was short-lived. We are living in a day and time when virtually every sacred cow in America and the institutions they represent are being thoroughly savaged.

A Weekend Of Reflection

April 8, 2023 Ray Cardello

In the grips of Easter Weekend, it seems appropriate to reflect on what has happened to our country created out of a need for people from Europe to have a safe place to practice their religion. We were not a nation of one religion but one based on the principles of Christianity.

Palate Cleanser – So Moses Was Ahead of His Time??

April 3, 2023 Skip

So, Moses took advantage of “technology” back in the day, too?

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People Who Think They Are God, & Those Who Know They Are Not

December 22, 2022 Ray Cardello

I have to confess I stole that title from Tucker Carlson. Tucker is one of my favorite news people because he is fearless. He has no allegiance to the Right or Left, and if his reporting upsets either or both, so be it.

The Story of Thanksgiving – Only As Rush Limbaugh Could Tell it.

November 24, 2022 Skip

(Image H/T: Rush Limbaugh) I thought that I had used his recounting of the First Thanksgiving. Instead, in trying to find his Thanksgiving post on communal vs private property rights, I found this one instead. It’s a good one all on its own and I urge you to read it. However, it was Rush I … Read more

I’m Radical, Oh So Radical

August 25, 2022 Steve Earle

Full confession, I am completely radical by Leftist standards. I freely admit I am a Christian, I believe in God, Jesus, and Christian values. And there’s more! I confess that I love America or what America was as I was growing up.

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Sunday Sermon (On Monday): We Might As Well Start With A Big One.

August 15, 2022 Op-Ed

Billy Graham was known to say, “teach with your Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.” Sound advice, for without a newspaper, it’s hard to know what people are thinking, and without the Bible, it’s impossible to convey what God is thinking.